A partially deaf boy came back home carrying a note from the officials at school. The note suggested that the parents take the boy out of school, claiming that he was ‘too stupid to learn’.

The boy’s mother read the note and said, “My son Tom isn't ‘too stupid to learn’. I’ll teach him instead.” and so she did.

When Tom died many years later, the people of the USA paid a tribute to him by turning off the nation’s lights for one full minute. You see, this Tom had invented the light bulb and not only that, but the motion pictures and the record player.

In all, Thomas A. Edison had more than 1,000 patents to his credit.